Chapter 237 Resultless Conference
University of California, Berkeley is a public university that is part of the University of California system.
The benefits given to California are probably that the tuition fees for residents of this state to attend the school are relatively low.
After all, the funds for public universities mainly come from state government financial appropriations.
But as a well-known public research university, it is certainly impossible to operate with the state finance funding.
With public attributes, you cannot charge high tuition fees like private universities, so you need to have diversified inputs if you want to develop.
The research fund is the most important input. At least the famous professors in the school can make money from it, so that they can stay in the school wholeheartedly.
Not to mention that the overall economy of the United States has been in a state of recession in recent times, especially the one in the white house is already desperately reducing fiscal spending.
This fiscal pressure has also dropped to the state level, with financial support continuing to decline.
I can't even complain, after all, it's not just California, but all states.
There is something special about it when you come to California.
For example, the University of California system has issued many bonds, which are extremely high debts for school development. These bonds are used to build medical centers and high-end communities.
This is mainly because university land has tax-free preferential policies here.
As long as it is a business conducted on campus, whether it is a business or a private company's research income and intellectual property income will be reduced.
So the school naturally has great motivation to make a fuss on the land on campus.
For example, the school will combine classrooms and laboratories with various commercial, stadiums, high-end residential areas and medical centers.
So every time a new laboratory is built, a prosperous business will become around it. Then the school can rely on medical centers and commercial operations to obtain development funds.
This method sounds good. And it is indeed the case in the financial report. For example, the annual income of the University of California Medical Center can even exceed the total state government grants and donations.
And the University of California system belongs to public universities, and no one seems to be able to make a profit from it, it is simply perfect.
But the only regret is that the school itself has no money, so it depends on issuing bonds, that is, borrowing.
Moreover, these bonds are mortgaged with high-quality assets such as school tuition fees, real estate assets and profits, campus catering, stadiums, etc. For those who buy these bonds, it is almost a sure-fire transaction.
Of course, those who can buy such high-quality bonds in large quantities are definitely not ordinary people. As for who it is, that is a secret.
So the tuition fees of the University of California system have been rising, and it is difficult for ordinary faculty and staff to increase their wages, and it is an indisputable fact that various living costs have increased due to high debt.
In order to make up for the fiscal gap, the University of California system is more inclined to recruit students from other states and abroad. After all, the tuition fees for out-of-state students are four to five times that of students in this state.
The specific situation at Berkeley is actually similar. The school is a well-known school, but it owes a lot of money. Therefore, schools not only need to develop, but also need more income to repay interest and principal.
Cooperating with major technology companies is undoubtedly one of the fastest ways to make money for a well-known research university like Berkeley.
Especially, it cooperates with large technology companies such as Google, Microsoft, IBM, etc. to build various laboratories. It can further stimulate the vigorous development of various industries in the school.
So now someone suddenly wants to interfere with it and prevent these large technology companies from cooperating with them?
What's even more terrifying is that this person really has the bargaining chips that affect the decisions of these large technology companies, and even the bargaining chips that can affect the chaebols behind the technology companies...
Big bosses on the board of directors How about not being in a hurry? This is not just digging the roots of the school, it is cutting off the wealth of countless people!
If schools cannot develop sustainably, how can they continue to issue bonds? Especially if those professors who can get the program leave, how can they continue to maintain high tuition fees?
What's even more terrifying is that if students who develop to Berkeley will no longer be favored, it is a problem whether they can find enough students in the future.
This also means that the value of on-campus entertainment commercial complexes that schools spend a lot of money to build will continue to decline. If you lose someone, both rent and medical center income will plummet.
In this case, how should those bonds that have been sold repay the principal and interest? Just rely on that little state funding? Stop kidding, who can value that little money? Not enough salary.
This is really the food and clothing of millions of canal workers! It is conceivable how anxious the members of the board of directors were at this time, and they were even more anxious than the principal!
In this case, an emergency meeting of the Berkeley board of directors was held just 1:00 p.m.
Apart from the two of them who were unable to attend the venue abroad, everyone was there.
Even the two foreigners actively participated in the meeting through video, and delayed their rest time regardless of the time difference.
After all, every board member does not represent themselves, but also represents the interests behind them.
What if someone needs to make a sacrifice when encountering such a big thing? If you don’t attend the meeting, the sacrifice will inevitably be your own interests. Who can I ask for advice?
It is no exaggeration to say that the board of directors of the University of California system has never been as efficient as it is today.
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"The people are here, so the meeting is now on. I believe everyone has already understood the specific situation. Dr. Qiao Yu of China seems to have a Berkeley University in the University of California system. Some misunderstandings, although I don't know how this misunderstanding arises.
I personally don't think it's important. The next focus we need to discuss is how to resolve this crisis. Before this meeting begins , I have contacted three large companies with related R&D cooperation contracts with Berkeley.
Including Google, Intel and IBM, I can only tell you that the feedback is not optimistic. If we cannot solve this problem as soon as possible, They really take action, even if they feel sorry for this decision!
So everyone, now is not a time to complain meaninglessly. We need to work together to overcome this crisis. I believe everyone knows what it means to withdraw investments from these large companies at the same time!
So I suggest that everyone’s speeches should be targeted - how can we survive this crisis! So is anyone going to speak first now? "
The speaker was John Perez, the current chairman of the board of directors of the University of California System.
This is undoubtedly a big shot, who has also served as the speaker of the state House of Representatives.
< br>Before becoming chairman of the board, he had served on the UC Board of Directors and served on multiple committees of the board.
After becoming the chairman of the board of directors, he made many adjustments to the University of California system and admissions policies.
So even saying that he is the one who knows the current internal and financial situation of the University of California system best.
The expression of the chairman of the board shows that he is in a terrible mood at this moment!
There is no way. When John Perez found out that he could not even use his former Speaker of the House to make these damn big companies surrender, he knew that this was in trouble.
After all, he represents the interests of the California government!
The upper class has its own set of operating rules. It is not about deeper chains of interests, and the senior executives of those technology companies will never treat him with the attitude that makes him feel humiliated.
At this time, John Perez's eyes naturally fell on Lucas Eisen.
Yes, Frank's grandfather Lucas Eisen is also one of the board of directors of this year's University of California System.
He was originally a Californian native and graduated from Berkeley, so he naturally represented high-end scholars from the California department.
This is also the reason why he could easily get Frank to Berkeley to serve as a professor.
As for the reason why John Perez pays attention to Lucas at this time is also very simple. From his perspective, Berkeley is just a collective concept, and the school itself naturally cannot have any unsolvable conflicts with Qiao Yu.
So the biggest possibility is that the school’s mathematics professors have any dirty things with Qiao Yu, which will cause them to be implicated.
Lucas Eisen is one of the world's leading maths, after all, he is a big shot who once won the Fields Medal.
If you figure out who Qiao Yu had a conflict with, this matter would be easy to solve. After all, no one at the University of California is indispensable.
Even if Lucas Eisen offended Qiao Yu, he would immediately let the math master leave.
The most annoying thing is that he asked many people for information, but the answer he got was that Qiao Yu didn't explain at all what happened that he suddenly attacked Berkeley, let alone who it was.
This is what made John Perez most angry, and even hated him so much that he gritted his teeth.
Jo Yu is also a dignified Fields Medal winner after all. How could he act so frivolously? It made him unable to understand at all.
Who has offended you, can't it be possible? He even was willing to pull the man out and vent his anger on Qiao Yu. Isn't it childish to play the Riddle Man?
But thinking of the Fields Medal winner who gave him a split headache is only seventeen years old this year...
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Forget it! He is also a child and cannot reason with adolescent boys! I can only say that one of the people in the mathematics community is crazy!
Yes, even when he was not very happy to see Lucas Eisen at this moment.
Lucas Eisen noticed John Perez's gaze, and he could even clearly guess why the Chairman was the first to notice him.
But his mood is still sunny at this moment.
In the past two hours, he also looked for everyone in the mathematics circle with good relationships with Qiao Yu.
Peter Schultz, Pierre Dellini, Lott Dugan, Tao Xuanzhi, Dennis Gates...
No one knows why Qiao Yu suddenly went crazy.
He also wanted someone to call Qiao Yu to ask, but considering the jet lag, these people were only willing to send an email even for his sake.
He even called Yuan Zhengxin...
Unfortunately, the answer he got was not clear, and he just said he would help him ask. But at least there are answers that need to be waiting until evening.
As we all know, mathematicians will not speak without understanding anything, it is like a report meeting without any preparation...
So this meeting Cass Eisen intends to remain silent.
Unfortunately, the others seemed to have the same idea as Lucas Eisen, and John Perez took the initiative to come to him.
"Professor Eisen, why not talk about it first. I have carefully read the relevant announcements of Berkeley in recent times. It is impossible for the school to offend Qiao Yu.
So I wonder if it was from the school. What is the displeasure between a certain mathematician or several mathematicians and Qiao Yu? If you know some news, you should share it with everyone."
Lucas Eisen glanced at John Perez At first glance, shook his head and said: "I'm sorry, Mr. Perez. In fact, after I learned about this, I tried my best to inquire.
Sorry, at least as far as I know, no one has any displeasure with Qiao Yu. On the contrary, most mathematicians at Berkeley respected and even admired the achievements of Qiao Yu. "
After Lucas Eisen said this, his mind suddenly became inexplicably inexplicable. His grandson-in-law appeared.
He remembered some of the speculations he had used to.
Lucas Eisen had previously doubted whether Frank had offended Qiao Yu, or whether there was any unknown bond between the two.
Otherwise, some of the things Qiao Yu did would not be able to explain, and it seemed that he would always be unable to get along with Frank intentionally or unintentionally.
The doubts in his heart were suppressed at that time because the two of them were not abnormal after meeting each other, and Frank did not show any hostility towards Qiao Yu.
But today's emergencies once again aroused the doubts in Lucas Eisen's heart.
There is no love and hate in this world for no reason, just as any mathematical proof cannot be deduced out of thin air.
Of course, Lucas Eisen was just thinking in his mind and did not show it.
Even if it was John Perez asked.
"Can you be sure? Professor Eisen."
"At least as far as I know, this is true. Of course, no one is an omniscient, I am also Trying to find the truth, but it takes time.
In fact, we would rather see that the University of California system have a healthy development environment, so if I understand the real situation, I will definitely inform the board of directors as soon as possible. "
Lucas Eisen replied without a trace.
John Perez nodded. Even though he was unhappy at Lucas at this time, he could not find a reason In the case of this mathematician, we should not offend this mathematician.
Of course, this emergency meeting did not discuss any effective countermeasures as John Perez hoped.
< After all, this matter is actually Qiao Yu's attitude.
When John Perez sadly discovered that no one of the board members of the entire California university system could have a relationship with Qiao Yu, he had already confirmed that the meeting would end in vain and would only start to accuse each other and argue with each other!
So before it developed to the point where it would make him more irritable, John Perez decisively terminated the meeting.
Hope is still with Lucas Eisen after all. According to him, given the time difference, he would have to wait until the evening to get a reply, so the next meeting time is set at 10 o'clock that night!
Yes, even if you sacrifice your rest time, you have to find an answer and quickly resolve the crisis.
After all, those damn technology companies don’t have much time left for them. Once many scientific research cooperation is really terminated, it will be difficult to restart it.
At the same time, Frank was also struggling.
After all, he is a member of the academic circle, a professor at Berkeley, and a professor of mathematics.
The sudden big move Qiao Yu made made many faculty and staff at Berkeley panic, and naturally it also came to his ears.
Frank suddenly felt that the situation seemed not very good.
The sudden attack was unreasonable and even refused to reveal the reason... Could it be that Qiao Yu knew? !
(This chapter ends)